Hi Cesar!

We have a 115 lb female Great Dane (three-year-old Cleopatre). We just began three months ago to walk her (on-leash) daily for forty minutes. She was doing fine until we met a group of nine (unleashed) dogs barking at us like crazy.

Dear Cesar:

I have recently "inherited" a 30-pound, seven-year-old mixed breed female dog after my aunt died. Moesha is a smart, part greyhound, part whatever-dog with fairly good manners. She has two major problems which have scared me enough to write you: 1.) running away if any door or gate is cracked open and 2.) me being unable to keep her from dragging (running) on a leash when I am trying to walk with her.